for this morality to be called in question⁠—and in any case the reverse of the testing, analyzing, doubting, and vivisecting of this very faith. Hear, for instance, with what innocence⁠—almost worthy of honour⁠—Schopenhauer represents his own task, and draw your conclusions concerning the scientificness of a “Science” whose latest master still talks in the strain of children and old wives: “The principle,” he says (page 136 of the Grundprobleme der Ethik 4 ), “the axiom about the purport of which all moralists are practically agreed: neminem laede, immo omnes quantum potes juva ⁠—is really the proposition which all moral teachers strive to establish,⁠ ⁠… the real

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